Aloha BBQ Pizza

While chatting with one of my flatmates the other evening, I came up with the idea of merging a Hawaiian Pizza with a BBQ Chicken Pizza, which is how the name Aloha BBQ Pizza was created and since an ex-flatmate was stopping in for dinner I thought it would the perfect opportunity to try out this new creation with my very own taste tester, little did she know what she was walking into with The Hungry Vegan Bear.

The first step was to mix up a batch of THVB's Badass BBQ Sauce.  Many of you might recall this recipe from my Vegan 4th of July Extravaganza.  I really wanted to break out this sauce again and the Aloha BBQ Pizza was the perfect opportunity to whip up some sauce.  Since this is a small batch of sauce, I used a mug and a fork for the mixing/stirring process. I added a bit more J.D. this time around, but I thought it wouldn't matter too much since the pizza would be cooked and I didn't plan on driving.  This sauce creates about a cup, so once you have the sauce spread over the dough you will have to refrigerate the leftovers.  I'm guesstimating that the sauce will last for about a week as long as it stays cold.

Tools
cutting board
knife
cheese grater
cup
fork
18 inch pizza pan or stone

As for the dough, I used Trader Joe's wheat pizza dough.  I thought the sweetness of the wheat dough would be very complimentary to the smoky flavor of the BBQ sauce without becoming sickeningly sweet, which, turns out, was correct.  I used about a teaspoon of margarine on my pizza pan to prevent the dough from sticking on the pan. 

The Hungry Vegan Bear's Badass BBQ Sauce Ingredients

The Hungry Vegan Bear loves this BBQ sauce almost as much as she
loves pawing through a strawberry patch.

5/8 tsp black pepper medley

1/8 tsp Cayenne pepper

3/4 tsp liquid smoke

1/2 tsp chili powder
3oz tomato paste

1 Tbsp Jack Daniels

1 Tbsp brown sugar

1 tsp olive oil

1 1/2 tsp vinegar

1 tsp molasses

2 dashes hot sauce

2 dashes salt

1 clove garlic

1/4 water

1/2 tsp pepper flakes

1/3 crushed sweet onion

Once the sauce was prepared, I used more than a half a cup of sauce over the dough.  I like a lot of sauce on my pizza, but, if you're not a fan, then you can opt to use only half a cup. 

Aloha BBQ Pizza Toppings

1/2 c white onion
2 vegan chicken patties
3 slices vegan Canadian bacon
1/2 green pepper
1/2 can pineapple
1/2 block mozzarella vegan cheese

Grate the mozzarella over the sauce and dough.  Next, I chose to cut the vegan Canadian bacon into thin strips.  It's not necessary, but I didn't want the vegan chicken or bacon to over power all the other flavors on the pizza, so I cut both items up prior to placing them on the pizza.  Then dice the onion and slice the green pepper into strips.  As you can note from the photos, I forgot to add the green pepper.  Please don't hold this against The Hungry Vegan Bear, her paws are full, lately.

This is THVB's Aloha BBQ Pizza with green peppers,
but not the pineapple.  One of my flatmates is not very fond of pineapple, so I altered the recipe upon her request.